Weird Tales

The original magazine of Gothic fantasy & phantasmagoria.

Weird Tales #349

Weird Tales #349 is a special edition: it celebrates the magazine´s 85th anniversary. And it begins in great style, featuring a classic name and a regular contributor to Weird Tales since its resurrection in the 1980s: Tanith Lee.
Lee’s story, “Heart of Ice,” tells of Nirsen, an orphan betrayed by the people he lives […]

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Weird Tales #348

Weird Tales #348 begins with W.H. Pugmire and M.K. Snyder’s “The House of Idiot Children,” a rather solemn but effective story. Samuel Shammua is a Hebrew teacher who has a very special student, an autistic child who can manipulate language as if it were a virus. The solemnity comes from the obsessive, almost religious attitude […]

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Weird Tales #346

From the first tale, a horror story, to the last, a blend of urban fantasy and mythology, Weird Tales #346 offers up stories in almost every genre that a reader might desire, with the sole exception of high fantasy—which really isn’t missed with a set of stories this high-quality and varied.
“Bob Bodey’s Body Parts” by […]

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Weird Tales #347

Issue #347 is the first issue of Weird Tales from fiction editor Ann VanderMeer, who prior to joining the Weird Tales masthead had already established a reputation in the industry for editing fantasy and the weird. Given that Weird Tales also has a bit of a track record in the fantasy and weird departments, […]

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